Modern Review April 1939

As regards the general effect of the new trade agreement although fuller criticism has to be reserved till the details of the Agreement and all the now submitted by the nonofficial Advisers to the Government of India are published it is clear that Britain has got on the whole a total ... So far only the views of Indian textile manufacture [...] One unforeseen result of the illness of the president was that Maulana Abul Kalam Azad had to officiate for him at some of the sittings of the Subjects Committee and throughout the open session of the Congress with the help of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. [...] The Congress which hive got its programme in the past twenty years under the guidance Inhatina Gandhi and is definitely of the - there should be no break in these policies and should continue to govern the Cousins programme [...] So far as we are aware no responsible office-bearer of the Congress—not the President at any rate during the first year of his incubency of the office and the few days of his second term which had elapsed before the moving of the resolution—had worked for proposed or suggested any departure from " the fundamental policies of the Congress " whatever they may be. [...] Pandit Pant's Resolution and the President's Position According to Pandit Pant's resolution the Congress President is to nominate the Working Committee in accordance with the wishes of Gandhi